How's about not naming it then? How's about saying what is right there: For the first time in a long time, during a time when resource and opportunity is concentrated in the hands of those that have benefitted from credit expanding intervention by ...

US Consumer Price Index - August 2025

Inflation is the pitch. Employment is the players. So good luck convincing me inflation is subordinate to employment; when all central bankers worldwide, would disagree with you (as per their mandates). Gold isn't a straight ahead inflation hedge; ...

US Consumer Price Index - August 2025

Producers will not pass on any perceived reduction in input price. Consumers beliefs and expectation are well and truly set and stuck. Need a recession to unstick it.

US Consumer Price Index - August 2025

Inflation still out of control. But the Fed will cut 0.25% to please the mob, and then wait to see if the employment situation really is collapsing.

US Consumer Price Index - August 2025

And yet they had access to studies by Mandelbrot and others demonstrating that painful inflation has infinite memory.

US Consumer Price Index - August 2025

Not the same with trading at all. Chess is complex but knowable. It’s platonically soluble. Predicting asset prices isn’t. The latter would require knowing the position and momentum of every particle in your light cone (some would argue even that ...

Algorithmic trading: How machines are shaping the finance market

Remove the concept of "knowing", and I think it will help you.

US Producer Price Index - August 2025

more buyers than sellers.

NFP revision -911K, biggest on record!

I love the idea that a market can be rational at any point in time, ever, at all. So abstract to me at least. A perfectly rational market wouldn't need to exist, surely? If a there was such thing as a perfect lifeform: You also wouldn't need to ...

NFP revision -911K, biggest on record!

..And casinos sell books on card counting. Just saying... try to suspend the need to be needlessly reductive.

NFP revision -911K, biggest on record!

It was scheduled. All financial media talking about it ahead of today.

NFP revision -911K, biggest on record!

CPI thurs: So who cares about this until then.

NFP revision -911K, biggest on record!

If you can comfortably afford a minimum bet whereby you buy gold and it goes to zero (E.g. If minimum bet is 1 troy ounce. Your liquid net worth must be at least $70k). Then continue. Else Stop here and go do something else. If the above is true, as ...

Sustained downturn in UK construction output reported in August

A secondary market implying an increasingly costly primary market, impeding fiscal policy, not affecting an economy? Again...just wow.

US 30-Year Treasury Yield Reaches 5% For The First Time Since July 18

Really amazing response thanks. Interest_rate<>yield. Is that simple enough? It is possible for them to have the same value, in the same way I have two hands and two TVs... but talking about TVs to explain hands.. isn't gonna help you bud.

UK 30-year yield climbs to 5.66%, highest since 1998 - BBG

Just wow.

US 30-Year Treasury Yield Reaches 5% For The First Time Since July 18

Still smarting from being called out I see, my chatGPT inspired friend!

UK 30-year yield climbs to 5.66%, highest since 1998 - BBG

Yes. You borrow £10 from me for a year and you will pay me £11 back. 10% interest. 5mins later though, I need to borrow money, but all I got is that £11 receivable (discounted though to todays value). So I desperately find someone and strong arm ...

UK 30-year yield climbs to 5.66%, highest since 1998 - BBG

Yields you mean? Yeah FF is funny. Takeaway the anon element and we'd all be having a great time in the pub.

UK 30-year yield climbs to 5.66%, highest since 1998 - BBG

You're made.

UK 30-year yield climbs to 5.66%, highest since 1998 - BBG